Mary Wollstonecraft — "I am not a creature of circumstances; I am a creature of principle."

"To be more loved than esteemed is a precarious tenure."

"Men are not more naturally brave than women, nor more naturally rational. They are only rendered so by education."

"The common source of all the follies which degrade women, is the inexperience which they are condemned to acquire, till they are mothers of families."

"The most holy band of society is friendship."

"I have always been of opinion, that the only way to make women rational creatures, and free citizens, is to allow them to pursue their own interest, and to follow the bent of their own inclinations."